Bodnant Garden - Details of the opening times and facilities of this garden, together with 'what's in flower?' section and photographs.
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Attractions I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Attractions
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Attractions My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Attractions
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Attractions When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Attractions
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Attractions Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Attractions
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Attractions blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Attractions
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Attractions The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Attractions
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Attractions "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Attractions
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Attractions I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Attractions
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Attractions Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Attractions
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Attractions The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Attractions
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Attractions Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Attractions
